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MODEL WELFARE CENTRE.
The following is a statistical Summary relating to Infants admitted to the
Municipal Model Welfare Centre, 210, Kingsland Road, for the year 1926: —
(1) Number of cases in the wards on 1st January, 1920: 10 babies.
(2) Number of cases admitted : 50 babies and 2 mothers.
(3) Average duration of stay : 10 weeks.
(1) Reasons for admission and the number of cases under certain specified
heads
Marasmus 19*
Rickets 5
Vomiting 3
Dyspepsia 13
Enteritis 1
Illness or absence of mothers 3
Prematurity 6
(5) Number of cases discharged during the year : —
(a) In good health 19
(b) Improved 27
(6) There was one case of whooping cough and one of scarlatina, which were
transferred to hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
(7) Number of deaths: one died from enteritis on 13th August after six days
residence.
(8) The discharges on account of illness, infectious or otherwise, were as follows: —
Two cases referred to under Section 6 above, which made satisfactory recoveries.
One child which was transferred to the Queen's Hospital diagnosed as intussusception.
The case however made a satisfactory recovery without operation.
* Includes one re-admission.